How to Protect Your Kids' Privacy Online

New ways to keep the Web's trackers, snoops and creeps away from your family.

If you search for my kids online, you'll find barely a trace of them. Not only do I not post any information or photos of them, I have also taught them to erase their own digital footprints.

My children, whom I will call Woody and Harriet, are 6 and 9. They use fake names online—always. They use software to block online tracking, and instead of Googling homework assignments, they use a search engine that doesn't store any data about their queries. They have stickers that cover their computer cameras. Harriet, my older...

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